By GHAZANFAR ALI KHAN | ARAB NEWS
RIYADH: Human rights officials and social workers have called for increased police patrols to prevent abductions and other crimes. They also called for a review of laws to ensure speedy trials of suspected rapists.
“About 200 cases of child rape are reported annually from the Saudi capital,” said Dr. Hussein Bahashwan, an official of Riyadh’s health department.
“Child rape is, of course, one of those horrible new crimes that Saudi society is facing,” Saleh Al-Khathlan, deputy chief of the National Society for Human Rights (NSHR) in Riyadh, said on Thursday.
“The way to minimize and possibly eradicate incidents of rape and sexual abuse is to apply severe and prompt punishments.”
Al-Khathlan also called on parents to be aware of the tricks used by people to lure underage boys and girls so they can sexually abuse them.
“Parents must be educated on how to protect their kids,” said the NSHR official. Domestic violence, including child rape and abuse, accounts for 22 percent of 5,600 domestic abuse cases reviewed by the NSHR annually.
Referring to the nature of Saudi society, where it is believed the majority of rape cases go unreported, the NSHR official said, “Society today is more complicated and trust in strangers is naturally eroding.”
Categories: Asia, Family values, Law, Law and Religion, Saudi Arabia
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